I've been a DBA for several years, but now plan on getting certified
because so many employers won't even hire these days without it. I
just took a practice test, and scored 9/10 without a time limit, but
the stupidity, irrelevance, and vagueness of some of the questions
really floored me. Some of the questions were downright MISLEADING.
Example: using a password file with remote_login ... set to shared.
The whole point is to set it to exclusive so that you can add SYSDBA
users into the file with a grant sysdba. Why do they ask about a
setting that isn't supposed to be used? Then they ask if Oracle Net
is part of OSI -- what the hell is OSI? -- the only OSI I know is
from the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman series. Dumb
questions.
Dom.
Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 19:51:14 CST
